'Citizenship' in the Bible

The commanding officer answered, "I acquired this citizenship with a large sum of money." "But I was even born a citizen," Paul replied.

that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

But our citizenship is in heaven -- and we also await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,